Toast4j is a Java package for creating native Windows notifications. It is a Java extension built around C++ and is based on the WinToast library.
Install Visual Studio and configure hardcoded paths in build.gradle.
You may find some documentation on the WinToast repo and also on the introductory article on Microsoft Learn about toast notifications.
This project is based on ootime/jWinToast
and ootime/WinToastWrapper.
WinToastWrapper is in turn based on mohabouje/WinToast
from which it includes files wintoastlib.h and wintoastlib.cpp.
It seems to originally have taken those files from that repository at revision
c8f50eb220cab7aec5e4e426ce52e75de7d20964 (Mar 24, 2019) on top of which some modifications
have been added.
WinToastWrapper and jWinToast added the C++ bindings using JavaCPP and also tried to support some of the more modern notification features with custom templates, i.e. buttons, progress bars etc. These extension were not fully baked yet, so we chose to remove them and only keep the JavaCPP wrappers.
While working with the original WinToast source code, some rough edges have been detected that have been smoothened within this repository. There's still some cleaning up and documentation left to be done though.
To build and publish, you need to have the MSVC compiler on your path. On cygwin, you can do something like this:
export PATH=$PATH:"/c/Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.33.31629\bin\Hostx64\x64"
Afterwards, in order to publish to Maven local:
./gradlew publishToMavenLocal
Publishing to our Maven repository works like this:
./gradlew -Ptopboyte publish